The show’s transvestites and over the top gay and obese characters simply couldn’t cut it in the present era of Twitter outrage, according to its co-writer and star Matt Lucas.

“Little Britain is about 15 to 16 years old now, we all got old," Lucas has said. "I think you would do things differently now.

"There was a character who was a rubbish transvestite who said 'I'm a lady'. She was fun at the time but I think we look differently at the transgender community now and it would be very hard to do that.

In particularly he and his co-star David Walliams would hesitate to revive the “Minstrels” – a fictional race resembling white men in blackface.

“Society has moved on a lot since then and my own views have evolved," Lucas added. "Now I think it's lazy for white people to get a laugh just by playing black characters."